Hide data entry?

[Chris Good]

I am wondering if anyone knows how to mask the data being entered into a field? I have a script that looks to a field for a "password" before running the script. I would like the data that is enetered to not be seen. I know I can change the text color to white and then it's not visible, but you can still see what is being typed as you type it. I would like to to show up as *'s or something is possible.

Any ideas?

[stanley]

Chris:

You can get a font which is all bullets, much like what you see on secure login sites, or on some ATM machines. I know there's one called BulletZ, and I can't recall at the moment where I got it from.

-Stanley

[stanley]

The BulletZ font is available in the free software section at:

http://www.lifesuccess.org

-Stanley

[LaRetta]

With vs. 7, you can also just use Show Custom Dialog which provides a password mask font allowing User input.

[stanley]

LaRetta:

Excellent tip - I hadn't even noticed that.

-Stanley

[Reed]

Does anyone know how fonts like this work over IWP? I'd imagine they wouldn't work at all, esp. if the web client doesn't have the font installed.

I ask since the show custom dialog script or the relogin (with dialog) script don't work in IWP, and it would be nice to create a relogin layout where a user could enter a username and password into fields w/o showing the password.

[Barbecue]

You're correct, fonts won't work over the web. Even if they did, it wouldn't be very secure, since the browser user can override the display fonts.